Links 20/04/2008: Lots of GNU/Linux Distro Releases This Month, Many Conferences
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-04-20 10:23:57 UTC
- Modified: 2008-04-20 10:23:57 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Circular Funding
- Passing around capital that does not exist (for PR's sake, but there are ramifications)
- Y Combinator (YC) Funds Scams, Run by Scammers
- Including Scam Altman
- EPO People Power - Part I - Identifying Corruption
- The EPO, at this stage, is a boat full of holes
- Google Still Promotes Plagiarism From WebProNews and Prolific Slopfarms
- Google News seems lost and hopeless sometimes
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- Links 10/12/2025: McDonald’s Latest Slop Gaffe (After Dumping IBM's Slop) and "Scam Altman’s Panic Sweats"
- Links for the day
- Links 10/12/2025: Ransomware (Windows TCO) Has Crippled Economies, Slop (Fake) "Videos Have Flooded Social (Control) Media"
- Links for the day
- IBM Has Become a "Plantation"
- IBM is basically being destroyed for some cash at this point
- It's Not Too Late to Send an E-mail to Your European Representative Regarding European Patent Office Abuses
- If you live in Europe and have not done so already, please contact your national delegates, whose job is (at least on paper) to represent you
- Almost a Thousand EPO Workers Have Voted for Industrial Action
- Mandate given to SUEPO for action plan to stop the salary erosion of EPO staff
- Why So Many Software Projects Are Quitting Microsoft and GitHub
- Be more like LibreWolf. Move away from Microsoft and GitHub.
- Many of the Attacks on Us Apparently Boil Down to Jealousy
- Envy is a negative trait that leads people to self harm
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 09, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, December 09, 2025
- Valuing One's Work by the Effort or Budget Taken to Undermine It
- As long as what we publish is factual, nothing prevents its publication
- IBM Says It Buys Another Company for "AI", So Why Does IBM Fire Its Own "AI" Experts?
- As people rightly point out, this has nothing to do with "AI"
- The Boundaries of Criticism
- The harder the EPO will push back, the better the job we must have done
- New EPO Series: Mafia Culture, Mobbing, Nepotism, and Illegal Drugs
- The series shall start later today
- Richard Stallman Was Right About "AI"
- "Considering Stallman worked in the MIT AI lab in the era of symbolic AI, and has written GCC (an optimizing compiler is a kind of symbolic reasoner imo), I think he has a deeper understanding of the question than most famous people in tech."
- With 3 Weeks Left (Sans Extensions) the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has Already Raised About Half of the Money Set as Fund-Raising Goal
- “Idiots can be defeated but they never admit it.” — Richard Stallman
- Gemini Links 10/12/2025: Cranberry Juice and Gramophones
- Links for the day
- IBM: We Lay Off Tens of Thousands of People the Very Same Week We Spend 11 Billion Dollars (Debt) on "AI" Fantasies, Hiring About 8,000 People at Cost of 1.3+ Million Dollars Per Employee
- Seems like IBM is run by fools
- Links 09/12/2025: Tariffs Causing Great Harm and "How to Leave the U.S.A."
- Links for the day
- Links 09/12/2025: "After the Bubble" (of Slop), "The Internet Forgets"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 09/12/2025: Lunar Observations and Programming
- Links for the day
- Linux Foundation Has Found a New Business: Pyramid Schemes
- Linus Torvalds should have known better
- They Won't Tell You This ("Revolution Won't Be Televised"), But the Slop Bubble Already Burst
- We already wrote about it twice this morning
- UbuntuPIT Started Experimenting With LLM Slop and a Month Ago It 'Died'
- This is the typical trajectory of slopfarms
- LibreWolf Will Turn Six in March, It Already (Probably) Has Millions of Users
- It's not possible to know the number of users LibreWolf has
- The Year of the New Dark Age
- Something isn't right
- Slopwatch May be Doomed
- Slop isn't changing the world, certainly not in a good way anyway
- BetaNews Still a Dodgy Site, It Seems to be Partly Run by Chatbots
- The company that took over apparently tries to "monetise" the domain with slop
- Tomorrow the EPO Administrative Council is Meeting to Discuss the EPO, Contact Your National Representative Today
- Final versions of the EPO Administrative Council photo gallery
- IBM's Total Debt is About to Hit Almost 80 Billion Dollars, the Company Can Only Raise $14.8 Billion Within 3 Months
- Route towards insolvency, not just irrelevancy
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 08, 2025
- IRC logs for Monday, December 08, 2025
- IBMers Impacted by the Mass Layoffs (Which IBM Tries Not to Talk About) Are Livid as the CEO "Spends 11 Billion He Doesn’t Have"
- IBM dooms both its brand and its future
- Consumerism and Christmas
- Many of us yearn for prior decades when December was about family, not shopping
- 'Linux' Foundation 'Research' (Marketing) Has New Report About "Open Source" and It Was Made Using Proprietary Software and Not Linux
- what 'Linux' Foundation 'Research' is
- Links 08/12/2025: Cambodia-Thailand Air Raids, Japan/China Military Incident
- Links for the day
- The "Cut 10,000 Jobs" Clickbait and Microsoft Sites Now Speculating That Microsoft CEO Has Just Signalled More Mass Layoffs
- by our tally, Microsoft had more than 30,000 layoffs this year, not 15,000
- Canonical Outsourcing Ubuntu to Microsoft Results in Broken Ubuntu, Just as One Can Expect
- State actors and Microsoft prefer it that way
- Mocking a Software Developer for Using the Terminal or Programs Like Emacs
- A decade ago someone asked RMS (Richard Stallman, founder of the free software movement) to send a screenshot
- OpenAI Traffic Collapsing (for 3 Months in a Row About 20% Down Per Month), Bankruptcy Likely Soon
- How much time has OpenAI got before its massive debt is too much for anyone to shoulder or bear?
- IBM + NDA = Laid Off Workers Saying "Thank You" for the Layoffs
- The important thing is, for now, more people become aware of it
- Monsieur Claude Sahl, Part of the Administrative Council of the EPO (Which Fails to Administer the EPO), Has Been There For Over 30 Years
- They have basically built themselves a very expensive palace in Bavaria (Germany), in which to grant European monopolies to billionaires and companies that aren't even European
- Open Letter to the Administrative Council of the EPO Calls For Action as Salaries Decrease (Just Like Patent Validity)
- Based on what I heard and spoke about with journalists, they accept there is a substance abuse problem at the EPO's management
- Links 08/12/2025: "Leaving Intel" (Exodus Continues) and Ways "to Civilize Digital Life"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 08/12/2025: Earbuds and Offline 'Smartphones'
- Links for the day
- Books About Bubbles
- calling things "AI" and "AIs" can mislead the reader
- Links 08/12/2025: Slop Failing and Windows Users Won't 'Upgrade' Due to Slop
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, December 07, 2025
- IRC logs for Sunday, December 07, 2025
Comments
CoolGuy
2008-04-20 14:34:53
http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm/browse_thread/thread/5187fd263da0e0da
Infosys is running a program called CTY (Catch them young) :There was a preliminary test 4 school children in 9th std.....Then 31 students were selected and given a 10 day class....it covers MS Office 2007,Database design(ms access),ALICE,Introduction 2 SDLC, HTML,VB and a SDLC project.....Food and transportation free...In between there is test 4 wat they hav taught.....atlast one test is there and then 2 children will be selected 2 do a project in infosys in may 2009 with stipend.
more>> http://www.hindu.com/yw/2004/08/14/stories/2004081400640200.htm >> http://infotech.indiatimes.com/articleshow/760194.cms
CoolGuy
2008-04-20 14:35:53
http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm/browse_thread/thread/5187fd263da0e0da
Infosys is running a program called CTY (Catch them young) :There was a preliminary test 4 school children in 9th std.....Then 31 students were selected and given a 10 day class....it covers MS Office 2007,Database design(ms access),ALICE,Introduction 2 SDLC, HTML,VB and a SDLC project.....Food and transportation free...In between there is test 4 wat they hav taught.....atlast one test is there and then 2 children will be selected 2 do a project in infosys in may 2009 with stipend.
more>> http://www.hindu.com/yw/2004/08/14/stories/2004081400640200.htm >> http://infotech.indiatimes.com/articleshow/760194.cms
Roy Schestowitz
2008-04-21 00:01:43
It's like a drug industry, isn't it? They even call it "Catch Them Young". They don't even try to hide the plan.